How do you start the user's selected Daydream programmatically?

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On my Galaxy Nexus, I can tap this button in system preferences to start my currently selected daydream.

preferences screenshot

Is there a way to reproduce this functionality in an app via Intent? I don't have a daydream service, but I would like to allow the user to start their preferred daydream.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 12 '17 at 09:33

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Edit 9/22/2014: This does not work on some Samsung phones I figured out how to do this by digging through some Android source code.

final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.setClassName("com.android.systemui", "com.android.systemui.Somnambulator");
startActivity(intent);

Sample app available here.

edited Oct 12 '17 at 09:33

Michael B

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answered Jan 31 '14 at 17:10

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This doesn't work in Android 13 (Pixel) anymore. com.android.systemui is crashing when trying to start this activity. – Alexey Ozerov Aug 26 '23 at 11:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '23 at 15:26

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Using adb

adb shell am start -n com.android.systemui/.Somnambulator

answered Jan 12 '23 at 15:26

Gyl

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How do you start the user's selected Daydream programmatically?

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